" ordinary Americans also refused to defer to those possessing, as Tocqueville put it, superior talent and intelligence and these natural elites could not enjoy

" ordinary Americans also refused to defer to those possessing, as Tocqueville put it, superior talent and intelligence and these natural elites could not enjoy much share in political power as a result." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#On_majority_rule_and_mediocrity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#On_major...